A small head with white hair peeked over the top of the wall.
"Were you two arguing just a moment ago?"
As she spoke, the white-haired girl used her arm strength to easily pull herself up onto the top of the wall, looking down at Otto.
"Girl, don't you know that your posture makes people want to throw you off?"
Tian Shi looked at Kallen sitting on the wall and complained silently.
"No, no, you should leave quickly. Are you a Kas... eh, Kaslana?"
Looking at the other person's silver hair, Otto suddenly thought of something.
"That's right, my name is Kallen Kaslana!"
That genius of the Kaslana family... the youngest daughter of Francis Kaslana, the 29th head of the Kaslana family.
The name was so famous among the three families that even Otto, who lived deep within the mansion, heard it often.
Although both were the youngest daughters of their families, their fates did not overlap.
Kallen Kaslana is destined to become the head of the Kaslana family, while Otto is nothing more than a political pawn for the future of the Apocalypse family.
Thinking about this, Otto felt completely bored.
"My name is Otto Apocalypse."
Otto simply nodded in greeting, then turned around and left.
In her opinion, the other person would forget her name very soon.
Hopefully, this won't cause any trouble.
However, not everyone is as sensible as Otto right now.
Seeing that Otto was preparing to turn around and leave, Kallen suddenly became anxious.
She came here because she saw something fun, but now that the other person is leaving, who will she play with?
Thinking about this, Kallen immediately jumped off the wall.
"Wait, wait, wait!"
"Why did you jump?"
Otto's eyes twitched as she looked at the reckless Kallen.
But seeing Kallen jump unharmed, Otto couldn't help but feel a little envious.
"What if my brothers or my father find out...?"
"Don't worry, don't worry, even if your two older brothers team up against me, they won't be able to beat me."
Kallen waved her hand dismissively, a gesture that inexplicably reminded Tian Shi of Kevin.
The Kaslana family even seems to have passed down this carefree and easygoing personality... Otto, by contrast, was completely exasperated.
"Is it really okay to tell a sister that you're going to beat up her brothers?"
"Umm... is it okay?"
Otto couldn't help but laugh at the thought of her two older brothers being beaten by Kallen, who was roughly the same age as her.
However, Otto, who had learned to control herself after being treated with indifference for so long, still managed to hold back.
"What's with that 'I'm about to laugh' look on your face?"
"Is it...?"
Otto patted her face.
"The Kaslana family has quite good intuition," Tian Shi told Otto in the private chat.
"Sometimes you don't need logic; you can judge right and wrong simply with intuition... In a way, that's a trait that schemers hate."
"Was it just intuition?"
Otto also felt that this ability was a bit unreasonable.
"By the way, didn't I think His Excellency the Bishop was quite kind?"
"My father... was kind?"
Otto heard an unexpected comment from Kallen, but she understood quickly.
Her father was probably already thinking about how to win over the future patriarch of the Kaslana family... perhaps through marriage.
At that moment, Otto was not aware at all that she possessed political insight far greater than that of a 13-year-old girl.
"Kallen, you'd better not get too close to His Holiness the Bishop."
"Why do you say the same thing as my dad...", Kallen rolled her eyes, complaining.
"Well, well... let's talk about something interesting."
"Interesting?"
Otto tilted her head.
"What do you mean?"
"Of course it's that paper bird in your hand that can fly! How about you fly it again?", Kallen looked at Otto with her bright, sparkling eyes.
"One more flight?"
"Your brother disappeared a long time ago," Tian Shi said laughing from the side.
This reassured Otto.
"Then let's fly it once more."
The wind was still strong, and Otto felt quite resentful thinking that the kite had only flown a short distance.
Clap, clap, clap!
Kallen clapped in perfect sync with the occasion.
"Can I fly it once in a while?"
…
"Ha ha..."
Otto sat on the ground, panting heavily without regard for her image.
"One more flight?"
"Fly a billion more times!"
"It seems I still flew further."
Kallen stood next to Otto and said with a proud expression.
"..."
"Is this person a pervert?"
Otto looked at Kallen, who seemed completely oblivious to fatigue, and lay on the ground without caring about her appearance.
Tian Shi: "..."
"Why do I feel like they are so similar to Su and Kevin?"
"It's getting late, I'm leaving now, see you tomorrow."
Kallen looked at the already yellowing sky, waved to Otto, climbed over the wall with a few quick movements, and disappeared in an instant.
"How do you feel?"
"Not very well."
Tian Shi helped Otto up and gave her a few gentle pats on the back to help her catch her breath, which made Otto feel a bit better.
"This is the first time in my life I've done such strenuous exercise."
"And what about Kallen?"
"Hmm?"
When Kallen was mentioned, Otto gave a strange look.
"Although she is a very nice person, I feel that being friends with her would be a bit annoying, at least for me."
The difference in physical condition was too great, and Otto seriously suspected that a large grizzly bear was hiding under Kallen's cute face.
"Ahem... Although for many people it's a miracle to have lived so long, I honestly don't want to die young."
"You are the least qualified to use the term 'die young'."
Tian Shi looked at Otto.
Well, maybe Fu Hua is the least qualified to say that.
"Or is it that you need to exercise precisely because you are in poor health?"
"Ah... that's a very bad way to put it..."
Perhaps due to exhaustion, Otto was too busy to carefully choose her words when communicating with Tian Shi, so her tone became much more informal.
"If possible, I would like you to train me in a more... more 'scientific' way."
Otto said a word she had learned from Tian Shi the night before.
"That would be a shame."
Tian Shi shrugged: creating a fitness plan was outside his area of expertise.
"I hope so."
Otto felt no regret at all.
"Speaking of which, this kite needs to be remade... That person's arm strength is practically cheating in this kind of competition!"
Otto, who had just calmed down, became indignant again upon seeing the battered kite next to her.
It wasn't because of the damage to the kite's body, but because she was thinking about the game she played with Kallen.
"Kallen's arm strength was so great... God help her! How could a sickly girl like me win against her?"
"Thinking about it this way, I realize I really need to exercise more."
"But... if training is useful, then what's the point of having the Kaslana family?"
The young Otto fell into a depression.
"Stop thinking about it."
Tian Shi helped Otto, who had rested enough, to stand up.
"Hurry up and change your clothes, it will soon be time for dinner."
"Yes, that's right."
Otto looked at the sky; it really was getting late.
If she came to the table looking so bad... Otto shuddered.
Although she no longer felt reverence for her two older brothers, she still felt a deep respect for her father, the Bishop of Schicksal.
Otto immediately returned to her room, changed her clothes, and asked a maid to bring her a basin of water to wash her face.
"Your bedroom is quite nice, isn't it?"
Observing Otto's aristocratic-style dressing table, Tian Shi sighed.
Although Otto was somewhat marginalized, she was still a young lady of the Apocalypse family, and her daily life was not neglected.
What followed was a fairly quiet dinner hosted by the Apocalypse family.
Otto's father, Nicholas Apocalypse.
A middle-aged man gradually showing signs of aging, but who exhaled the air of an ambitious man.
"This won't work..."
Tian Shi commented in his heart.
This kind of ambitious person, whom even he could discover with the naked eye, is far inferior to the future Otto.
Without God's vision, Otto's disguise would be far superior to this middle-aged man's.
Otto's mother, Sabrese Schariac... a "normal" woman.
However, in the original timeline, Otto granted the surname Eleanor Schariac by making her the adopted daughter of Sabrese.
Just like what happened to Kallen in the future, this woman may be a pawn used by Nicholas to control the Schariac family.
However, as far as adopted daughters go, Eleanor already had two adopted daughters before her.
Another woman at the table caught Tian Shi's attention.
It's worth mentioning that Otto actually has two older sisters in addition to her two older brothers: Bianca and Lisa.
This is why Otto introduced herself as the third daughter of the Apocalypse family.
However, Otto's older sister, Bianca, had already died on the battlefield, and her second sister, Lisa—the only woman besides Otto and Sabrese—instigated Otto to release the Honkai Beast on the day of Kallen's execution in the future, and poisoned her father, Nicholas, before the execution.
Then, she supported Otto's nephew, Marcel, as a puppet bishop to begin a dark reign.
Compared to Nicholas, Otto's second sister was the truly ambitious one.
"But speaking of that, does Otto seem to have a good relationship with her sisters?"
After all, Bianca's name was given to her by Otto, and although Lisa caused problems that led to Kallen's sacrifice and was sorry to Otto, Kallen's noble character is probably incomprehensible to most people.
Having experienced the Internet, Tian Shi was well aware that for a long time, "saint" and "holy bitch" were synonyms: in the eyes of some people, one was simply stupid and the other simply cheap.
Although it was a transaction between two, it is remarkable that a "poisonous woman" like Lisa could keep her promise and let Otto go afterward...
Considering this, the treatment Lisa gave Otto was not exactly great, but it was okay.